And they reported lower levels of commitment to school and more modest educational aspirations.

而且据反映，他们的学习投入程度较低，学习志向也够远大。

The court would be recklessly modest if it followed California's advice.

如果法院听从了加州的建议，那它就逊过头了。

" Just as modest as Horace described! " said Worple.

“果然像霍拉斯说的那么！”沃普尔说。

So she stays quite, she stays modest.

所以她保持着沉默。

Instead, Republicans are advocating for a more modest proposal.

相反，共党人主张更温的提议。

A modest backlash is under way, in an unexpected quarter.

温反弹正以一个让人意想到的方式进行。

The hero was very modest about his great deeds.

那英雄对他伟大的功绩毫夸耀。

With a modest satisfaction, he would tell me that he had thought a bit himself.

他常会带着些许的满足感告诉我他自己就常常思考。

Yet there it was content to bloom, In modest tints arrayed, And there it spread its sweet perfume, Within the silent shade.

而她安于朴素色调的装扮，心地开放；默默地在阴影里面，吐露甜美的芬芳。

I moved out of my parent's modest place into a housing project.

我从父母的小房子里搬出来，住进了一个政府资助的住宅区。

The modest version is called modest because it's asking less.

宽泛版本之所以宽泛 因为它条件宽松。

Families with modest incomes should insure the breadwinner or breadwinners first.

收入高的家庭应当只给或优先给顶梁柱投保。

One suggests that being modest is helpful because you come off as non-threatening.

其中一个是，逊能让你具威胁性。

Ingenuity is a technology demonstrator, so its goals are modest.

“机智”号是一种技术示范，所以它的目标是逊的。

Their thesis—that a relatively modest intervention could have a big impact—was based on the view that first-generation students may be most lacking not in potential but in practical knowledge about how to deal with the issues that face most college students.

他们的论文表明相对适中的“介入”会有大影响，其着眼点是第一代大学生最缺乏的或许是潜能，而是如何处理大多数大学生都面临的问题的实际知识。

Officials should serve as loyal as they can conscientiously when they are in office and engage in modest self-reflection when their terms end.

入则恳恳以尽忠，出则以自悔。

I limited myself to two modest ambitions: to do physical exercise every morning and to read more of an evening.

只给自己定下两项适中的任务；每天早上锻炼身体，每天晚上多看点书。

Low-key was originally an adjective that meant modest, or relaxed, or not a big deal.

低调原本是形容词，意思、轻松或是没什么大了的。

Some 48% of adults specifically visited a library in the past 12 months, a modest increase from the 44% who said that in late 2015.

大约48%的成年人在过去的十二个月中专程前往过图书馆，较2015年底的44%相比有所增加。

While many of these diseases are thought to be treatable by correcting the underlying mutation in even a modest fraction of cells in an organ, delivering molecular machines like base editors into cells in a human being can be challenging.

尽管许多这些疾病被认为是可以通过纠正器官中哪怕是一小部分细胞的潜在突变来治疗的，但是在人类的细胞中，将诸如碱基编辑器之类的分子机器传送到细胞中是一个挑战。